Sitting Ryder is an important first step. But I still think that confidence, rather than punishment, is what he needs. And my hunch is that that confidence would come from a few games in the AHL, though that probably means that they’d have to waive him (in which case salary room is freed up…but for whom?)

I hope you’re right about the new energy. It’s been a lack of energy that’s been the most noticeable different from my standpoint between the Habs of October and the Habs of right now.

Recchi will probably retire–I doubt that he’ll report or that anybody will pick him up. His stats this year aren’t that impressive and he’s clearly an offensive forward. Sort of like what P and M said about Ryder: you get nothing from Ryder on the fourth line.

I doubt they’ll make any moves b/c I still think that they are building for the future. One good think this year has been the play of Tomas Plekanac. And O’Byrne did very well last night, and so did Lapierre, though Lapierre has to learn to keep his mouth shut–it’s one thing to get under the other team’s skin, and it’s another thing to motivate the other team when they are losing 3-0.

The second period was brutal last night, but the first and third were quite impressive.

Recchi says he going to play for sure…it’s just a matter of where… and where should not be Montreal… we need someone who can grow with the team… not someone who could be the father of half the players on the team…

The issue is the Habs of October were playing with ALOT of Energy alot of grit. And the truth is that yes playing that way can win you games, the issue is how long can a team KEEP playing as if they are in the playoffs???

You see formations with Talent don’t need to pressure themselves as much… plus with an 82 game season NO Talent means fatigue/ fatigue means lossing games, means lossing confidence..

Ok here we go again..how in the hell do you get ahold of Carboneau anyway…i srongly suggest that he go down to the Sherwood factory in Quebec and scape up the last remaining “WOODEN”,,hockey sticks he can get so that those defencemen can use them when killing the power play…once again i see a broken stick costing the candiens the game because of the “quote”..Guy lafluer(618 goals guyz!),,”composite sticks are crap”..You get an extra 20 miles per hour from them but what good is it when yopur 50 feet wide of the net!”…ok you tell him hes wrong or show me your stats!,,thatll keep the big mouths shut ..anyway..even if the woooden stick breaks at the shaft it can be used “unfragmented”..yes you get the picture now..no penalty for using a “half shaft”….givem their “crap”..back when the penaltys over….man,,…CBC,,its your fault i had to watch the canadiens when i was a kid!…lol